Introduction and Learning Myth Reflection

0:00 Hi, my name is Alexis Flanders.

0:02 My pronouns are she, her.

0:04 I am currently a 3rd grade teacher in the Waverley School District in Lansing.

0:08 I spent 3 years teaching in Arizona and 3 years teaching in Hawaii, and I spent a year being a substitute, learning the Lansing area, and now I have my own 3rd grade classroom.

0:20 When looking at my beakers, left and right brain, I thought that was a myth, but I wasn’t fully sure.

0:29 Intelligence is fixed.

0:30 I knew that was a myth.

0:32 Multitasking.

0:33 I was a total believer, despite reading some evidence against it in high school.

0:38 I think from now on, I will try to focus myself on working on multiple things.

0:43 Learning styles, I was a total believer.

0:47 Talent versus persistence.

0:49 I was pretty sure that that was a myth, but I thought maybe it was true after meeting people like my brother that are just fantastic at everything they do.

0:58 You know, I thought there might be some truth to it.

1:01 Filling your brain, I knew that was a myth.

1:04 And studying close to a test, I have been a big crammer, but I have also lost a lot of that knowledge, so it makes sense that that was a myth.

1:14 I think learning styles being my biggest wow.

1:17 , was mostly because I have implemented things in my classroom, trying to tailor my instruction towards learning styles.

1:26 I have asked students kind of what is their favorite way to learn and giving questionnaires, talking about learning styles.

1:34 So that was my biggest wow!